Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    4B No individual ])rol)a1)ly belongs in crerii function, faculty, power, tissue, organ or nerve centre, to the 10 per cent. Fit or natural Aristocracy. A few may do so, but, as a rule, such men as, say, Goethe or Whitman liecome, on account of their environment in an luior- ganised civilization, defective in some region as they evolve through life. On the otliei’ hand, it is equally inq)robable that anyone belongs al)sohitely in detail of part to the 10 per cent. Unfit. We have, that is, to strike an average in order to class each man or woman in one or other of these. The theoretic unit from which we measure, is of course that assumed Indwidual who ranks as a hundred, in each and every function and faculty. Again, in estimating the social value , of any employer of labour, his rank and scale in society, we should have to take into consideration each department, all the functions he exercises as an employer. In considering whether he gave pure air to his employees we might find that he did, that he scaled high here. On the other hand, we might find fhat the water he gave them to drink was not pure. His standard of wage again might be high.